 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 ページ
...satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement, of any kind. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...of men propose and wish to better their condition. It is the means the most vulgar and the most obvious. (WN II.iii.28] About the pursuit of wealth as... | |
 | Christopher J. Berry - 1994 - 294 ページ
...improvement of any kind.' The positive consequence is that this restless desire creates opulence because 'an augmentation of fortune is the means by which...of men propose and wish to better their condition' ( WN: p. 341 ). Moreover, the very grounding of this restlessness in the facts of human nature means... | |
 | Donald A. Schon, Lloyd Rodwin - 2011 - 396 ページ
...human behavior, and it is not fulfilled in any unique way. "An augmentation of fortune," Smith writes, "is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition"; it is simply "the means the most vulgar and the most obvious," whether for the poor or the rich. And... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 ページ
...completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind. An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...of men propose and wish to better their condition. It is the means the most vulgar and the most obvious,- and the most likely way of augmenting their... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 1996 - 376 ページ
...and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave . . . An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the...greater part of men propose and wish to better their fortune . . . and the most likely way of augmenting their fortune is to save and accumulate some part... | |
 | Jasper Ungoed-Tho - 1998 - 178 ページ
...the acquisition of financial assets. 'An augmentation of fortune,' said Adam Smith (1986, p. 441), 'is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition.' There is, moreover, an intimate association between the possession of riches and personal fulfilment.... | |
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An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. 
